Portable kiln bracing post



Aug. 4, 1925. 1,548,795 C. E FULLER PORTABLE KILN BRACING POST Filed June 27 1924' ATx Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

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OLAUD E. FULLER, OF NEW" YORK, N. Y., A'SSIGNOR TO NEW YORK BRICK HANDLING- CORPORATION, OF NE'W YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEH YORK.

PORTABLE KILN BRACING POST.

Application filed June 27, 1924.

To all 10 hem it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLAUD E. FULLER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county-and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Portable Kiln Bracing Posts, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings representing like parts.

My present invention relates to kilns, and more particularly to an improved portable bracing post for kilns and the like.

In kiln sheds where the loading track runs along the side of the kiln, it is necessary, when building the kiln, to brace the side thereof adjacent to the loading track as the side frame members of the shed are too far removed from the side of the kiln to be economically or conveniently braced thereby. It has heretofore been necessary to build up a substantial false side Wall for the kiln adjacentto the loading track and various attempts have been made to devise a structure wherein such costly, temporary brace might be dispensed with. None of such attempts, so far as I am aware, has been successful. 7

In my development of this art I have devised an improved portable scoving for use in kilns for brick and the like, and such portable scoving is described and claimed in my copending application, Serial No. ?,856, filed April 21, 1924. In utilizing the portable scoving disclosed and claimed in the application above referred to, the question of handling such scoving on the side of the kiln adjacent to the loading tracks could not be successfully answered by the present day method of the substantial and temporary side wall, and recourse was therefore had to an auxiliary shed side frame member adjacent to the loading track and to which the portable scoving could be attached. It was found, however, that dismantling of the kiln and the loading of the burnt material therein onto the cars located on the loading track could not be economically performed while the auxiliary side frame member was in position. In obviating this difiiculty, I have devised the subject matter of the present invention and have provided spaced stub posts permanently set in concrete bases on the floor of the kiln shed, to which stab posts may betem- Serial No. 722,869.

porarily attached the uprights of the auX iliary side frame members, which side frame members may be, and preferably are, attached to the opposite wall of the kiln shed by the tie bolts or equivalent structu es The tie bolts are so arranged as to allow the portable scoving forming the subject matter of my copending application above referred to to be placed in position in the kiln adj acent to the auxiliary side frame members with the same facility as such scoving is placed in position relative to the side members of the kiln shed itself. The use of the tie bolts between the auxiliary side frame members and the frame members of the kiln shed enables me to employ the usualmethod of bracing the portable scoving in position.

The object of my invention, therefore, is an improved portable and removable post for brick kilns and the like.

' In the accompanying drawing, the figure represents an elevation of a kiln shed with the portable kiln post in position therein and within the limits of which and one of the side walls of the kiln shed the kiln is located.

Referring to the drawing, 10 designates a kiln shed roof supported on side frame members or uprights 11 and 12, it being understood that there is a plurality of side frame members 11 and 12 parallel to each other and lying in a vertical plane at either side of the kiln shed. The frame members 11 are connected together by angles 18 extending longitudinally of the shed, as shown, and on each of the angles 13 is located a wooden longitudinal 14;. The side frame members 12 are provided with like construction of angles 13 and longitudinals 14, this being the usual kiln shed construction.

Adjacent to one of the side walls formed of the side frame members 11 is a loading track 15 on which runs a car or other structure 16 and onto which the bricks may be loaded. lVith the loading track 15 arranged in the kiln, it is, of course, necessary to build the kiln composed of a plurality of units or stacks of brick 17 adjacent to one side wall, as the side wall composed of the members 12, and under such circumstances, the end of the kiln must terminate a sufficient distance from the loading track 15 to enable the necessary work of building the kiln, dismantling the same and placing in position and taking therefrom the portable scoving elements 18. It is, of course, im practicable to support or brace the portable scoving 18 from the side wall' composed of the members 11and'I have, therefore, provided in the floor of the kiln, which may be, and preferably is, of concrete, a' plurality of spaced stub posts 19. I alsoprovide an auxiliary side wall composed of a plurality of parallelly and vertically arranged members 20. (but one of which is shown) and tie such plurality together by longitudinally extendingangles 21", arranged as shown, and on such angles secure wooden longitudinals 22, as isusual in the building of a side wall for a kiln shed. Secured to each side of the lower end of the uprights 20 are plates 23 which extend downward on either side of the upper end ofthe stub posts 19. The up per ends of the stub posts 19 are so arranged as to allow fastening means 24 to be utilized in securing the lower end of the plates 23 to the upper end of the stub posts 19, in this manner securing the members 20 and 19 together temporarily. The upper end of each of the members 20 is provided with an eye 25 to which is attached one end of a tie bolt composed of a plurality of sections 26, 27, 28,

- and 29, the end of the tie bolt remote from the eye 25 being secured to an eye 30 secured to the inner face of the members 12. As above explained, the distance between stub posts 19 and, therefore, uprights 20, is such that the portable scoving .18 may be properly manipulated and placed in position withrespect to the kiln composed of the units 17 without the necessity of dispensing with, or temporarily removing, any of the tie bolts described above. When the portable scoving 18 is in the position shown, it may be secured-to, or braced'from, the mixiliary side wall composed of the members 20, and as described in connection with my copending application above referred to.

It will be appreciated that my invention, while simple in character, solves a difficult problem in the brick making art and this invention'hasbeen found of immense practical value and I desireto claim the same broadly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. An improved kiln shed comprising a permanent side wall, a plurality of stub posts arranged in alignment with each other parallel to, and spaced apart from, the

side wall, a plurality of posts forming a unit, means associated therewith for connecting the posts to the stub posts, and tie rods extending between the side wall and the unit.

2. An i'mproved kiln comprising a side wall, a plurality of stub posts in alignment with each other spaced apart from, and parallel to, the side wall, an auxiliary side wall formed of a plurality ofposts equal in number to thenumber of stub posts, means for temporarily attaching the posts to the stub posts, and a sectional tie rod extendin' between the upper-end of the unit an side wall.. v y

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

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